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Thou art my mistress ; I will worship thee 

 At sunrise and its setting ; we will be 

 Co-op'rative indissoluble, like twins. 

 O pearl-browed Margaret! if there is love 

 In hate, then love I thee most lovingly. 



noble Arnold 1 if there's truth in hate, 

 Then truly am I a true friend of thine ; 

 For I will bribe the Saints to give thy soul 

 To Heaven, thy sacred carcase to the earth 

 But chiefly will I bribe St. Landen burgh! 



He's a true Catholic saint has plundered much, 

 And will do more, or I mistake his calling ; 

 But put him on the foul scent of Mammon, 

 He'll follow like a wolf-dog on his prey ; 

 Then, Margaret, I'll calm thee with a kiss, 

 In my own fashion but more as to that! 

 My plans are laid I'll in to Landenburgh 



1 have some news will cut him to the quick, 

 And rouse his fury to the sticking point. 



Be thou my friend, good Satan, for a while, 

 I'll get thee absolution from the Pope, 

 A greater sinner aYid a greater saint ! 



A taste of Tell's vehemence in Arcle's 

 vein : 



Think ye, vile chains! to curb the soul of Tell? 

 Dungeons can never daunt the patriot's spiritl 

 I'd sooner be within these four damp walls, 

 With three-fold fetters on me, with the worm, 

 That leaves its slimy trace of wretchedness, 

 For my companion, than the pampered wretch 

 Who, in his gorgeous tyranny above, 

 Tramples upon a people's rights, and earns 

 A people's curses for his nightly blessing I 

 My body is thy pris'ner, Gesler! Chains 

 May gall my flesh may manacle my limbs, 

 And for a time may make me blush to mark 

 The stain they've left upon them ; but my mind 

 Can ne'er be soiled by things like these I 



The Family Library British Physi- 

 cians. Vol. XIV. These are animated 

 sketches enough of the lives of the 

 most successful British Physicians, and 

 range very well with Cunningham's 

 Lives of the Painters and Sculptors. 

 With no knowledge of the manipula- 

 tions of art, Cunningham had all the 

 poetry and cultivation to qualify him 

 for estimating the only really valuable 

 merits of painting and sculpture ideal 

 and poetic beauty. A professor would 

 have failed to grasp the generalities of 

 the subject, and busied himself, little to 

 the gratification of his readers, about 

 the niceties and peculiarities of particu- , 

 lar styles and manners. The poet was 

 the very man to judge of the embodyings 

 of his own art. Not so with respect to 

 physicians facts and observances rela- 

 tive to physical realities are all in all in 

 medicine. A professional man could 

 alone be competent to measure the me- 

 rits of his brethren ; and Dr. Henry 

 Southey a passage in the life of Gooch 

 seems to indicate that he is the writer 

 has exercised the sound gifts of his own 

 sound judgment, freely and fairly, on 

 the professional acquirements and per- 

 sonal character of men of very different 

 calibre. 



The series commences with Linacre, 

 and closes with Dr. Gooch, who died but 

 a few months back. Sixteen other names, 

 certainly among the most celebrated, 

 fil up the long interval of 300 years ; 

 but the reader will look with some dis- 

 appointment for other names, at least as 

 eminent for science, and some for popu- 

 larity, as any of those whose career is 

 thus spiritedly exhibited. We need 

 only mention such names as Garth, 

 Arbuthnot, Frend, the Monros and Gre- 

 gorys of the north, and even Brown, of 

 whom some slight, and we cannot but 

 think too slighting, account is given in 

 Cullen's life. Without any design to 

 depreciate, where we feel there must 

 have been some difficulty in steering be- 

 tween extremes, we cannot but think 

 too popular an air has been aimed at 

 throughout. Too often, the sketch is 

 merely an account of the obstacles the 

 individual encountered in rising into 

 notice and distinction the money he 

 made, and the use, generally a liberal 

 one, he put it too with but little at- 

 tempt to estimate his medical skill, or 

 to mark the peculiarities of his prac- 

 tice. 



In the life of Dr. Caius, the sweating 

 sickness, once so formidable, is described 

 with some particularity of detail as to 

 symptoms, but very vaguely and unsa- 

 tisfactorily as to the nature and origin 

 of it. Its first appearance is, of course, 

 historically, assigned to the invasion of 

 Henry VII. It broke out among his 

 foreign levies, who either brought it 

 with them, or more probably, says the 

 writer, generated it in the crowded tran- 

 sports. They are described by Philip 

 de Comines as the most miserable ob- 

 jects he had ever beheld. " A highly 

 malignant and contagious disease might 

 readily be produced in such circum- 

 stances ; but why it should appear under 

 so new and singular a form, why this 

 should be renewed so many times at ir- 

 regular intervals, and should at length 

 entirely cease, are questions perhaps 

 impossible to be solved." But is it cer- 

 tain that it was a new and singular form, 

 or rather not one that might and may 

 at all times be generated under similar 

 circumstances not essentially differing 

 from gaol fevers and typhus ? 



The principal features in Hervey's 

 life are, of course, the circulation of the 

 blood, and the progress of incubation. 

 His merits in the discovery of the cir- 

 culation are precisely marked others 

 had been on the very brink of the dis- 

 covery, and he did not quite complete 

 it. Of his conclusion in favour of the 

 universality of oval generation, the 

 writer thus judiciously remarks" In 

 perusing this curious treatise Hervey's 

 Exercitationes abounding as it does 

 with anatomical observations, which are 

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